Stocking advice

[Jordan01]

Very soon I will be setting up a 90 gallon tank and I am deciding what fish to put in it.

Some ideas I had were:

I had on oscar fish once so I want to put in one albino oscar, a small school of silver dollars or angelfish or I guess any type of schooling fish(what other schooling fish are there?) and maybe one or two other types of colorfull fish.

or

drop the oscar idea because I know that they need a lot of water and are very messy, but they are intellengent, that is why I like them, but anyway, how many 3-4 in (colorful) fish could I fit in a 90 gallon?

So I either want to have one oscar fish with some type of schooling fish or turn it into a realy cool community tank with a lot of 3-4-5 in fish.

What do you think, any ideas?

Also the tank dimesions are 48 x 18 x 20 somthing, I can't remember what it was exactly. The tank will have two aquaclear 500's for now untill I can afford a canister filter and I would also like to have some plants in it as well.

Thanks in advance

 

[Fishyfanatic]

Have you thought of African Cichlids? Or possibly several schools of Tetra's?

 

[Blucat]

How about:
4 angelfish (2 pairs): http://home.earthlink.net/~photofish/fish_photos/Angelpair2.jpg

4 Blue Ram (2 pairs): http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/img/ram5.jpg

a school of 6 Bosemani Rainbowfish: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=28378

a school of 10 congo tetras: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=28484

3 opaline gourami: http://badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile84.html
-or- (you can't keep both opaline and dwarf together)
4 Dwarf gourami: http://www.fishpalace.org/C_lalia.html

As for catfish, a type of fancy Pleco?
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1863&cat=all&page=1

 

[Fishyfanatic]

Wow! Nice responce BluCat! THAT sounds like a GREAT S.A. tank.

 

[Steven A]

Sounds very good 8)

 

[Blucat]

you see that is a very scaled version of my 500gal S.A biotope community tank that sits on a stand in my head.

I show it to everyone

 

[dr_girlfriend]

thats not 90 gallons with those measurements. Its more like 75. are you sure your numbers are right?


blucat, that is a fantastic mix!! I may have to use some of those suggestions for my 90....

 

[Jordan01]

How about:
4 angelfish (2 pairs): http://home.earthlink.net/~photofish/fish_photos/Angelpair2.jpg

4 Blue Ram (2 pairs): http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/img/ram5.jpg

a school of 6 Bosemani Rainbowfish: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=28378

a school of 10 congo tetras: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=28484

3 opaline gourami: http://badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile84.html
-or- (you can't keep both opaline and dwarf together)
4 Dwarf gourami: http://www.fishpalace.org/C_lalia.html

As for catfish, a type of fancy Pleco?
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1863&cat=all&page=1

You could put all that in a 90 gallon tank?
That is like 30 fish? I didn't think that you could fit that many fish in there without overstocking.

Oh and by the way about my tank dimensions it is 48 x 18 x like 24? I can't remember but it is a 90 gallon

Thanks for all the ideas so far

 

[lyquidphyre]

When you have a larger tank, you don't have to worry about overstocking as much as you would with a smaller tank. With a smaller tank it is harder to keep the water parameters balanced than it is with a larger tank.

in my 75gal I have 21 fish and I plan on adding 3 or 4 more

I love angel fish as well as blue rams...
Some other options you have are marble hatchets or silver hatchets
cory cats etc etc

Another option-
2 angels
4 rams
a school of 8-10 tetras (I like the serpaes)
6 marble hatchets
A school of cories ( I like the swartz and the pandas)
2 or 3 dwarf gouramis

and then if you wanted to you can add fish that don't have to be in schools (and sometimes are suggested to be solitare) like a red-tail black shark, or one or two golden barbs/odessa barbs etc etc

 

[lyquidphyre]

Also, someone please correct me if im wrong... but oscars are more or less for species only tanks. Im pretty sure the oscar would eat the angel in a heart beat

 

[Jordan01]

There are lots of different fish that can go with oscars, but most of the time it just depends on the aggresivness of that individual oscar.

And I have heard people that have had angels with oscars and some hav got along fine and some have got eaten.

If I wanted to put in and oscar then whta would you suggest?

 

[RoK]

Maybe a large pleco?

 

[Jordan01]

Would this work?

1 oscar
1 severum
4-5 silver dollars

Can I add more or is this too much?